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At USYD, the guidelines say that in first year about 3% of the people who pass should get HD, the top 14% get D or above and top 42% for C or above. Higher years it's 4%/18%/50%. So in general, to get over 65, you need to be above average. That's supposed to be an average over large numbers of...

Sorry to repost the link, but http://www.itweb.com.au/save/default.htm Please read that website and help! Whether or not you plan to do (or have done) a distinction course, if you think the distinction courses are a good idea then just take a few seconds to send an email. A template has...

It would probably vary from year to year, but at my school, people got in with the following marks: 1) 92 in Physics, 97 in 2U Maths 2) 89 in Physics, 98 in 2U Maths 3) 94 in SDD and missed out with 88 in SDD and 89 in 2U Maths The school adds a statement/puts your current other subjects/marks...

It is highly discouraged to drop this course, because the Board of Studies pays for everything. So firstly they've given you all the reading material, then they've paid for your trip to coonabarrabran for a week. Having said that, there have been cases of people dropping it. How about you do...

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I think you have to integrate sec x, which is difficult unless you see the magic :p You need to see that: secu = secu (secu + tanu) ----------------------- secu + tanu which is of the form (after expanding) of f'(x)/f(x) so it's log (secu + tanu) then you need to sub back in tanu = x...

You need four unit stuff. :(

Try a trigonometric substitution? x = tanu dx = sec2u du sec2/sqrt(1+tan2u) = sec2u/secu = sec u You can intergrate that in the usual way (multiply by (secu+tanu)/(secu+tanu)) EDIT: Sorry, thought this was extension 2. :p Yeah that question is beyond the scope of extension 1. EDIT2...

Lol people always seem to be tossing up between cosmology and philosophy or philosophy and comparative literature, never between cosmo and clit. :p I can't really comment having not done either of the courses, but one thing i will mention is that if you do comparative literature you'll be in...

I really enjoyed the course, but equally it was very challenging. A 2000-word essay each month means that you must keep up with your reading. And the major project (10-15000 words) is due a week before the beginning of the hsc (or it was for us, anyway), so it is important to get ahead with...

Ok :) Sorry if that sounded like a personal attack. I probably should have said 'the author should learn...'

Lol i can't be bothered responding to that. Just learn some history, some science and some basic logic.

If nothing else, i would say that the events presented in the bible (the miracles etc.) contradict what we observe about the world, so the onus is on you to show that there is evidence for the bible being right.

The author never rebuts the claim that Herodotus claimed that zalmoxis claimed to be god. How is that different to claims that jesus claimed to be god. I don't need to assume anything near as strong as what the author is rebutting. I also don't see the relevance of him being an 'obscure figure'...

Sorry, i missed that. Which secular sources?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmoxis And what, outside the bible, suggests that jesus did ever claim to be god? EDIT: I could find more similar myths - that's just one example.

Don't question the power of the invisible pink unicorn to transcend logic. :uhhuh: (if it's omnipotent, how can it be omniscient?) oh and sorry for stealing your usual argument enteebee.

I dont think i need any evidence to believe what i believe though.I think that it is important to note that although there is no evidence (well at least the thing that you would call evidence) for the invisible pink unicorn there is also no evidence against it.

Why does it take rational thoughts to hold the idea that a certain ritual is going to make you better? EDIT: It doesn't necessarily have to be a conscious idea - i'm certainly not suggesting that these people are pretending or anything.

That's probably a placebo effect. They believed they were possessed, and they believed that the ritual would heal them, so the belief that they were possessed disappeared.